This weekend I got inspired and made myself some custom juggling bags. I also wrote up and posted an instructable about the process, in case any of you feel like following in my manly footsteps.
2010-01-25
Project: Juggling Bags
This weekend I got inspired and made myself some custom juggling bags. I also wrote up and posted an instructable about the process, in case any of you feel like following in my manly footsteps.
2010-01-06
Haxxor!!!
I use MediaMonkey to play my music. I love it. It roxxorz. I give it 3 sneezes.
We (the wife and I) are currently listening through the Lord of the Rings trilogy in audiobook format. Due to the length of the chapters, the cds are broken up into 3-minute tracks. This means I have a LOT of LOTR mp3s in my music library. So [begin geekery] I wrote a custom playlist in MediaMonkey which grabs all of my LOTR tracks that have a play count of 0, and sorts them so that the beginning of the playlist will always be the first track we haven't listened to. It's like an automatic bookmark.
Then, I decided to update the tags and filenames of my LOTR tracks. At which point, MediaMonkey lost its database info for all of the LOTR tracks (presumably because it's associated by filename), setting the playcounts for all of the tracks back to 0. Which meant that unless I wanted to let MM play through all of the tracks we had already listened to (something like 6 hours of them) those tracks would always be sitting at the top of my playlist. Grrr!
So I did some lurnin' on the interwebs, and discovered that MM's database is stored in SQLite format. I downloaded SQLiteMan, and used it to hack my database, setting the playcount for the older tracks to 1, and solving my own problem. [/geekery]
Yay! Now I have geekhigh!
We (the wife and I) are currently listening through the Lord of the Rings trilogy in audiobook format. Due to the length of the chapters, the cds are broken up into 3-minute tracks. This means I have a LOT of LOTR mp3s in my music library. So [begin geekery] I wrote a custom playlist in MediaMonkey which grabs all of my LOTR tracks that have a play count of 0, and sorts them so that the beginning of the playlist will always be the first track we haven't listened to. It's like an automatic bookmark.
Then, I decided to update the tags and filenames of my LOTR tracks. At which point, MediaMonkey lost its database info for all of the LOTR tracks (presumably because it's associated by filename), setting the playcounts for all of the tracks back to 0. Which meant that unless I wanted to let MM play through all of the tracks we had already listened to (something like 6 hours of them) those tracks would always be sitting at the top of my playlist. Grrr!
So I did some lurnin' on the interwebs, and discovered that MM's database is stored in SQLite format. I downloaded SQLiteMan, and used it to hack my database, setting the playcount for the older tracks to 1, and solving my own problem. [/geekery]
Yay! Now I have geekhigh!
2010-01-01
Ringing in the new year
As the new year and new decade rolled in, I was watching Twilight with my wife.
This fact is mitigated by the fact that we also had the Rifftrax going.
I decided to start the year at the bottom so it could steadily get better.
I also just ordered the first 6 books of the Harry Potter books on Amazon because I haven't read them, and after watching the 50%-blood prince, I got inspired.
This fact is mitigated by the fact that we also had the Rifftrax going.
I decided to start the year at the bottom so it could steadily get better.
I also just ordered the first 6 books of the Harry Potter books on Amazon because I haven't read them, and after watching the 50%-blood prince, I got inspired.
Tweedlydeedlydeet, tweedlydeedlydeet tweedlydeedlydeet
Rockin' robin, oh yeah, rockin' robin...
I have decided that whereas as I thus far like twitter, it is a strange thing. For example, I now have a tendency to relate New Year's wishes and the like from such folks as John Cleese to my wife, much the same as I would if an actual friend who knew me were to say hi. How very strange.
And now, to take us to commercial, here's Michael Jackson and the other four people no one remembers....
I have decided that whereas as I thus far like twitter, it is a strange thing. For example, I now have a tendency to relate New Year's wishes and the like from such folks as John Cleese to my wife, much the same as I would if an actual friend who knew me were to say hi. How very strange.
And now, to take us to commercial, here's Michael Jackson and the other four people no one remembers....
2009-12-18
In your heeeaaad...
In your heeeaaaaaaad,
Zo-ombie, zo-ombie, zo-ombie-eee-eee-eee
No, what's actually in my head (and is quite possibly even creepier than zombie) is Jack Nicholson's voice, saying:
"Sell crazy some place else. We're all stocked up here."
It's a great line, that I wanted to have turned into a door sign, but I'm not sure I can go with it, now that I know who said it.
Speaking of zombies, if you haven't heard/seen this, well, even I enjoyed it, and I'm not a fan of the whole zombie movement. But be careful. The music gets stuck...in...YOUR BRAIN!!!! MUAH-HAAH-HAAH-HAAAAAA!
I apologize for that.
Zo-ombie, zo-ombie, zo-ombie-eee-eee-eee
No, what's actually in my head (and is quite possibly even creepier than zombie) is Jack Nicholson's voice, saying:
"Sell crazy some place else. We're all stocked up here."
It's a great line, that I wanted to have turned into a door sign, but I'm not sure I can go with it, now that I know who said it.
Speaking of zombies, if you haven't heard/seen this, well, even I enjoyed it, and I'm not a fan of the whole zombie movement. But be careful. The music gets stuck...in...YOUR BRAIN!!!! MUAH-HAAH-HAAH-HAAAAAA!
I apologize for that.
Friday Lynx - 2009.12.18
It's been a while since my last lynx post (or any post, for that matter), so I have several:
- First, a not-quite-new, but still kick-donkey technology I would love to see more of.
- One of the Mere Comments contributors linked to this in response to a particularly banal bit of political idiocy. I plan to pull this out and use it whenever appropriate.
- I have never made it more than 30 minutes through Napoleon Dynamite, but here is some interesting footage about real-life ligers. That is a really big cat. One of the cool things in this clip is that the zoologist explains why ligers are so big.
- Finally, to wrap things up on a narcissistic note, I'm finally on Twitter. I make no warranties as to how often or for how long I will be posting on Twitter, but there you go. Follow at your own risk.
2009-12-03
Project: Bench faux toes
As promised, I was able to get some pictures of the benches. Behold, the unfinished product:
Project: Benched!
Our dining room chairs, most of which we have had since we got married, are breaking down. Whether this is due to them being reasonably low quality, or whether it is due to abuse by 1-4 excitable, bouncy toddlers, I can't really say. Probably a combination.
This fact, coupled with the fact that at most we could easily fit 6 people around our table (fine for just the family, not so much for anyone else) inspired me to build some benches to go down the 'long' sides of our dining room table.
Using Google Sketchup (if you do much carpentry design and you haven't tried it you really ought to) I came up with the following:
The lengthwise braces at the bottom of the leg are the way they are so that the bench can be turned to either allow longer-legged people to easily rest their feet on the floor, or else to let shorter-legged people put their feet on the brace. Clever, no?
I don't have pictures of the actual final product, but in a few hours on Black Friday my BIL and I were able to cut, rout and assemble two of those, one for either side of the table. I have yet to sand/finish them, but they are very sturdy and perfect for what I wanted. And only one of them is a little bit wobbly (made more noticeable by our undulating dining room floor)!
I'll try to get some pictures of the unfinished product to post. I'm hoping to have some time this weekend to do some sanding and at least get the seat varnished, so it will stop absorbing food and drink before the stains soak deep enough that they won't sand out.
Also note that this project wouldn't be nearly as practical if we hadn't recently torn the carpet out of our dining room and put in laminate flooring, so we can actually move the benches around reasonably easily. Although currently the table slides more easily than the benches, which makes for some exciting 'tug of war' when the kids are ready to get down.
This fact, coupled with the fact that at most we could easily fit 6 people around our table (fine for just the family, not so much for anyone else) inspired me to build some benches to go down the 'long' sides of our dining room table.
Using Google Sketchup (if you do much carpentry design and you haven't tried it you really ought to) I came up with the following:
The lengthwise braces at the bottom of the leg are the way they are so that the bench can be turned to either allow longer-legged people to easily rest their feet on the floor, or else to let shorter-legged people put their feet on the brace. Clever, no?
I don't have pictures of the actual final product, but in a few hours on Black Friday my BIL and I were able to cut, rout and assemble two of those, one for either side of the table. I have yet to sand/finish them, but they are very sturdy and perfect for what I wanted. And only one of them is a little bit wobbly (made more noticeable by our undulating dining room floor)!
I'll try to get some pictures of the unfinished product to post. I'm hoping to have some time this weekend to do some sanding and at least get the seat varnished, so it will stop absorbing food and drink before the stains soak deep enough that they won't sand out.
Also note that this project wouldn't be nearly as practical if we hadn't recently torn the carpet out of our dining room and put in laminate flooring, so we can actually move the benches around reasonably easily. Although currently the table slides more easily than the benches, which makes for some exciting 'tug of war' when the kids are ready to get down.
2009-12-02
Blast from the Past
Anyone remember this game?
My good friend Josh back in high school (not to be confused with my good friend Josh back in high school that I still hang out with) and I used to play this one and man was it fun. It was the perfect combination of frenetic action, shiny bits, faux-guns and hand-eye coordination. I'll have to start watching the thrift stores for old copies of it, although I don't doubt that most sets around these days are missing most or all of the little, shiny, swallow-able pieces.
My good friend Josh back in high school (not to be confused with my good friend Josh back in high school that I still hang out with) and I used to play this one and man was it fun. It was the perfect combination of frenetic action, shiny bits, faux-guns and hand-eye coordination. I'll have to start watching the thrift stores for old copies of it, although I don't doubt that most sets around these days are missing most or all of the little, shiny, swallow-able pieces.
2009-11-30
Monday Lynx 2009.11.30
- Rhett and Link have released their latest 'local commercial'. Watch it if you're not easily offended.
- If you've never seen The Guild, and you want to increase your Geek Quotient, I recommend checking it out. In the mean time, here's a song, based on the show entitled Do You Want to Date My Avatar.
- I got my Google Wave invitation this weekend and I've been checking it out. I have a very few invitations for people, so if you want one leave me a comment explaining why there are six 'Original' Star Trek movies, 5 'Next Generation' star trek movies, and 0 DS9 star trek movies. I mean, come on. What are they going to do, ruin the series more than the combined forces of ST:TMP and STV:TFF?
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